Director, Electrical Engineering

CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. The company's products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats. 

CHAOS Industries was founded in 2022 and has raised a total of $1 billion in funding from leading investors, including 8VC, Accel, and Valor Equity Partners. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and London. For more information, please visit www.chaosinc.com .

Role Overview:  

CHAOS is seeking a Director of Electrical Engineering to build and lead the electrical engineering organization responsible for power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electronics across RF sensors and avionics systems. You will lead the development of mission-critical hardware from concept and architecture through qualification, production, field deployment, and sustainment.  

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline with sufficient breadth to lead complex, high-reliability electronics development across these disciplines. You will recruit and develop a rapidly growing team, establish engineering standards and operating practices, allocate resources across programs, and ensure the organization delivers technically rigorous hardware on schedule. You will lead from the front, personally addressing critical technical challenges while building the team and technical leadership needed to support continued growth.  

This is a full-time, on-site position in El Segundo, CA.  

Responsibilities:  

Build, lead, and develop a rapidly growing team of power, analog, mixed-signal, and digital electrical engineers  

Define the organization’s hiring plan, technical capabilities, engineering standards, and design review practices  

Plan staffing, priorities, schedules, and resource allocation across programs  

Lead the development of electronic system architectures and associated trade studies to meet performance, SWaP-C, manufacturability, reliability, schedule, and qualification requirements  

Provide technical leadership across high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal electronics, power conversion and distribution, PCB design, signal and power integrity, and EMI/EMC  

Resolve complex cross-disciplinary issues involving electrical hardware, FPGA and embedded software interfaces, RF circuits, thermal design, mechanical packaging, manufacturing, and test  

Lead hardware integration, verification, qualification, transition to rate production, failure investigation, and field support  

Serve as the senior electrical engineering representative to program leadership, customers, suppliers, and manufacturing partners  

Remain hands-on and personally contribute to critical architecture, design, integration, and troubleshooting activities as needed  

Minimum Requirements:  

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 15+ years of relevant engineering experience  

Experience leading and developing engineering teams responsible for complex, high-reliability electronics  

Background developing electronics for aerospace, defense, radar, electronic warfare, missile, space, or similarly demanding applications  

Deep expertise in at least one electrical engineering discipline, with sufficient breadth to lead high-speed digital, analog and mixed-signal, and power electronics development  

Experience developing complex electronic systems incorporating technologies such as FPGAs, processors, memory, data converters, high-speed interfaces, power conversion, and analog signal chains  

Strong knowledge of PCB design, component selection, signal and power integrity, grounding, EMI/EMC, derating, and design for manufacturability  

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